Obituary: Harry PatchHe was a plumber from Somerset, in many ways an unremarkable man, but Harry Patch became the last British survivor of the carnage of the Western Front.
He was the final physical link to a conflict that saw two armies bogged down in the mud of Flanders and northern France for more than four years.
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Researching British Soldiers Who Served in the 1914-18 Great War
By Ian Gumm
At In the footsteps BATTLEFIELD TOURS we occasionally receive enquiries about how to trace the records of British soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War. We do our best to help when such a request is made, but our resources are limited and we are conscious that our best is often very slow and not always that conclusive. To help those wishing to research records of British Soldiers who served in the 1914-18 Great War we thought that it would be useful if we put together some notes on the basics of how to research this information.
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